But our men, and the column to which they were now attached, formed no ordinary body of men.

They were Englishmen hastening to the rescue, and nothing on earth could stop them.

It was strange how slowly the news of those stirring times came to our ears.
One day we heard with a horror that I can never describe of that foul massacre at Cawnpore, where in cold blood gentle English ladies and innocent children had been brutally massacred, and their bodies flung into a well.

Then the news came of the achievements of that wonderful army of relief led by Havelock.
Day after day came the news of his march on Lucknow, where our besieged fellow-countrymen lay.

Every one knows of that heroic march.